sombrar

Spanish

Etymology

From sombra, or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *subumbrāre, from Latin sub- (“under”) +‎ umbrō (“I shade, overshadow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /somˈbɾaɾ/ [sõmˈbɾaɾ]

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• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: som‧brar

Verb

sombrar (first-person singular present sombro, first-person singular preterite sombré, past participle sombrado)

1. to overshadow, adumbrate

Conjugation

    Conjugation of sombrar (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)

infinitive			sombrar
gerund			sombrando
past participle				masculine		feminine
		singular		sombrado		sombrada
		plural		sombrados		sombradas
		singular			plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	sombro	sombrastú sombrásvos	sombra	sombramos	sombráis	sombran
	imperfect	sombraba	sombrabas	sombraba	sombrábamos	sombrabais	sombraban
	preterite	sombré	sombraste	sombró	sombramos	sombrasteis	sombraron
	future	sombraré	sombrarás	sombrará	sombraremos	sombraréis	sombrarán
	conditional	sombraría	sombrarías	sombraría	sombraríamos	sombraríais	sombrarían
subjunctive		yo	tú vos	él/ella/ello usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ellos/ellas ustedes
	present	sombre	sombrestú sombrésvos2	sombre	sombremos	sombréis	sombren
	imperfect (ra)	sombrara	sombraras	sombrara	sombráramos	sombrarais	sombraran
	imperfect (se)	sombrase	sombrases	sombrase	sombrásemos	sombraseis	sombrasen
	future1	sombrare	sombrares	sombrare	sombráremos	sombrareis	sombraren
imperative		—	tú vos	usted	nosotros nosotras	vosotros vosotras	ustedes
	affirmative		sombratú sombrávos	sombre	sombremos	sombrad	sombren
	negative		no sombres	no sombre	no sombremos	no sombréis	no sombren

¹Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language.
²Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.

Related terms

• sombra

 

Further reading

• “sombrar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28